A High Court-appointed special investigation team and the CBI found the Ishrat Jahan encounter to be “fake”. The CBI implicated the Gujarat Police as well as the IB in the alleged murders

The CBI had sought sanction for prosecution under Section 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure - under this section, prior sanction is required from a competent authority to prosecute a public servant.

The case pertains to June, 2004, when four individuals, Ishrat Jahan, her friend Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh, Amzad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in an alleged fake encounter by the Ahmedabad police on the outskirts of the city.

Meanwhile, a special CBI court in Ahmedabad adjourned the hearing after the probe agency sought time to respond to discharge pleas of accused former IPS DG Vanzara and former superintendent of police NK Amin in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case